Metal playlists from the underground
S&M2 officially hits the streets on August 28th but today Metallica released “All Within My Hands” and “Nothing Else Matters” from September’s San Francisco Symphony shows. Listen to Metallica’s “All Within my Hands” symphony track on the Gears of Rock Top 30 playlist on Spotify with new music by Lamb of God, Power Trip, Machine […]
Canadian alt-metal unit Pterodactyl Problems (great band name) recently released a medley of Black Sabbath songs, “The Sabbath Medley: Iron Man / War Pigs / Paranoid / N.I.B.” On digital formats. “The Sabbath Medley is an exercise in having the ultimate fun for us. We get to take the best bits of several classic Sabbath […]
Heavy rockers Gramma Vedetta return with new A.C.I.D. Compliant EP. This London-based stoner rock band always demonstrates great compositional skills. “We started recording this album at the end of 2019, like millions years ago, when the terms “wearing a mask” was only related to party and Halloween and Social Distancing was the protection against your […]
Canadian prog metal legends Voivod released a new 3-track “The End Of Dormancy” EP on digital and 12” vinyl formats through Century Media Records. “It’s always a great day for us when something we worked on gets to be released. These are strange times but we can still move forward!,” said drummer Michael “Away” Langevin. […]
Virginia’s heavy rock powerhouse Valkyrie will release their first album in 5 years. Fear, as the LP is titled has the band exploring a more diversified and progressive sound than usual. That’s why we have been closely following their most recent singles “Evil Eye”, “The Choice”, and “Feeling So Low” leading up to the Fear […]
The masked mutants of metal, Ghoul, have launched “The Nectarnomicon” single on their Maniaxe Bandcamp page. Staying true to their crossover thrash & death metal sound, the new track crushes. But how new is it? “Huh? We recorded that like four years ago. It’s just coming out now?!” said guitarist and vocalist Digestor. Listen to […]
Ukrainian metal titans Jinjer are scheduled to stream their Melbourne, Australia set from March 5 at the Knotfest website on July 9. This performance was one of Jinjer’s final concerts before the quarantine and has not been released in full. The show stream is part of Knotfest.com’s weekly streaming events that were set up by […]
L.A. dark wave project Neon Coven unleashed their infectious single “Blame It on the Drugs” on digital streaming formats. The band featuring Jacob Bunton (Mick Mars, Adler, Lynam) and guitarist Ace Von Johnson (LA Guns, Faster Pussycat) will release their debut album Future Postponed on October 30 via New Ocean Media. “From dance-pop to goth […]
NWOBHM band Airforce will release the Strike Hard LP on September 4 via Pitch Black Records. This great old school metal band has been kicking teeth since the 80s, which means riffs, lots of ripping riffs, and then more killer RIFFS! Here’s a sick metal fact: this band was originally formed in 1986 by Tony […]
